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These 2 little cones (Centre right and Lower left...~1cm long each) were in some quarried rock in Burlington Ontario. Presumably transported from elsewhere in Ontario. There were scattered crinoid stems on the same rock (All little donuts...oriented in the same direction) I can't figure out what the cones are. Any suggestions?

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Looks like coral to me based on the look and where you got it. I've seen horn coral that looks just like that :zzzzscratchchin:

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In my opinion those are crinoid stems

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16 minutes ago, Manticocerasman said:

In my opinion those are crinoid stems

+ 1 for crinoid stem

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Anal tubes of crinoids perhaps ?

There does appear to be a taper a couple of them as if they were cone shaped.

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Agreed with crinoid; I have seen hash plates riddled with these shapes. 

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They are crinoid stems broken/sliced at an angle not parallel to the length.

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22 minutes ago, Northern Sharks said:

They are crinoid stems broken/sliced at an angle not parallel to the length.

Post  recrystallization ?

Reworked fossils.

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Sorry to bump this, but I was doing a little research and came across these Tentaculitids and remembered this thread. I thought it odd that crinoid stems (which seemed to be the general consensus on ID) would have such a conical shape. Could these two cones the OP mentioned maybe be Tentaculitids? From the attached pic they seem like they could be mistaken for crinoids since they can disarticulate and be found in small ring sections similar to crinoids. Thoughts?

 

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